Taylor Brock is her name, and RedState was the first to break this mother’s story about the choking assault against her seventh-grade son, Christian, by a female perpetrator on a school bus. The boy was bullied, then choked, leaving visible marks on his neck, and scars on his psyche. Yet, despite Brock bringing the incident to their attention with the video and photographic receipts, the Fairfax County School District took little to no action on her son’s behalf.
Brock has since retained the counsel of Cheri Belkowitz and is speaking out to other outlets, including Fox News.
Brock and Belkowitz appeared on Monday’s Fox & Friends with contributor Lisa Boothe to talk about the tragic incident that RedState detailed here.
For those who didn't believe this Mom's story that @RedState broke, she was on Fox & Friends to confirm it.
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The interview revealed more disturbing facts. According to Brock:
“They said they would take care of it. When asked what that meant, the school claimed they could not disclose what that would be, but that they would notify the staff and teachers about the incident.”
But Brock discovered that it was a coordinated coverup by the school, when one of Christian’s teachers reached out to her, apologetic that she did not know about the incident and would have done what was necessary to protect Christian had they been informed. Said Brock:
“The school told me they told everyone, but they didn’t notify his own teachers. That’s how much they wanted to sweep that under the rug.”
Brock’s attorney, Cheri Belkowitz, said:
“It’s very common in these kinds of cases to offer protection to the perpetrator, but the victim doesn’t usually get the same level of respect.”
How is that possible? How can a school district allow a child to continue to be terrorized while protecting the perpetrator from supposed harm? It makes little sense, but Belkowitz alleged this was too often standard operating procedure for school districts.
“It also makes it very hard for us to find out what has happened, what was done for justice for Christian when we aren’t told what was the punishment received by the perpetrator.”
Brock also revealed that the toll on Christian has not been just physical or psychological, but emotional. Despite having an order of protection against the perpetrator, with the new knowledge that the school is simply trying to paper over the attack, Brock has chosen to remove Christian from the school for his own safety.
“It’s hard for him because, you know, we’re a military family, we move every few years… and we just got here. He hasn’t even finished a year, and [now we have] to take him out of school. He didn’t want to go at first, he said, ‘I have my friends here, and why should I have to go when she’s the one who did something to me.’ “
But as a Mama Bear, Brock’s goal is to protect her son and to keep him safe. Sadly, this appears to be of little concern to the Fairfax County School District, and other children remain in harm’s way as long as they continue to ignore, obfuscate, and cover up this crime.
You would think the Fairfax County School District would have treaded more carefully, as this case has the potential to snowball quickly into a class action suit, particularly since the female perpetrator has allegedly bullied other children at the school. If Fairfax County is attempting to bury this incident, how many other incidents involving this female have they also buried?
As discovered in the Loudoun County School District, the coverup of the sexual assaults by a male student who identified as a transgender female was bigger than one school and the fallout is still being litigated. Now that Brock has retained counsel and is moving forward, no doubt Fairfax County administrators are circling the wagons.
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